The Department of War published its second release of declassified Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP) files on May 22, 2026, adding 64 new records to the government’s public disclosure portal at WAR.GOV/UFO. The release is part of PURSUE — the Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters — a rolling declassification programme launched on May 8, 2026 that has already drawn over one billion hits worldwide.
According to Chief Pentagon Spokesman Sean Parnell, the Department and its agency partners are “actively working on the third release of UAP files, which will be announced in the near future.” UAP Oracle has catalogued the complete second release below.
What’s in Release 02: The Numbers
The 64 files span five agencies and seven decades of records:
- Department of War — 52 files. Overwhelmingly military encounter video (FLIR, IR, cockpit footage), plus one historical document on UAP reported at Sandia Base, 1948–1950.
- NASA — 7 files. Mission audio excerpts from Apollo 12, Apollo 17, Mercury-Atlas 7/8/9, and Mercury-Redstone 4 — spanning 1961 to 1972.
- Department of Energy — 3 files. Enhanced Pantex imagery, the James Tuck correspondence, and a Pajarito astronomers invitation.
- CIA — 1 file. An Intelligence Information Report on a 1973 USSR case.
- ODNI — 1 file. A 2025 USPer narrative from a senior U.S. Intelligence Community official.
The Files That Matter Most
1. The Tyndall Tic Tac (2024)
File DOW-UAP-PR066 is a 2024 infrared video from a USCG C-144 near Tyndall, showing a single “Tic Tac”-profile object reading hot on IR over the southeastern United States. It is one of the most recent military UAP videos the government has ever released — and the Tic Tac morphology directly echoes the 2004 Nimitz encounter.
2. The DOE Nuclear Nexus
The three Department of Energy files are, for our research, the most significant in the release. DOE-UAP-D001 (Enhanced Pantex Imagery) connects UAP activity to the Pantex Plant — America’s primary nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility. DOE-UAP-D002 and D003 tie to Los Alamos: the James Tuck correspondence (Tuck was a British-American physicist at LANL) and a 1986 Pajarito astronomers invitation in New Mexico.
This is the same DOE/NNSA institutional network at the centre of the 13 missing scientists case — an active federal investigation in which every affected institution traces back to the Department of Energy’s classification authority. The government releasing DOE UAP files while that investigation is ongoing is not a coincidence we intend to overlook.
3. The CENTCOM Combat-Zone Cluster
The bulk of the DOW videos document encounters in active military theatres: a four-UAP formation off Iran (Aug 2022), “Syrian UAP Instant Acceleration” (2021), multiple Persian Gulf and Gulf of Arabia sightings throughout 2020, and a dense series of CENTCOM encounters dated across 2018–2022. Several show UAP interacting with submarines (USO — Unidentified Submerged Objects).
4. UAP Over U.S. Air Bases
Domestic encounters include Eglin AFB aircrew observations (Feb 2023), several objects near Columbus, Ohio, an F/A-18 FLIR capture, a USAF ANG F-16C weapon-system recording, and fifth-generation aircraft footage from Jan 2023 — all NORTHCOM, all on or near U.S. soil.
5. The NASA Space-Program Audio
Seven NASA audio files reach back to the dawn of crewed spaceflight: Apollo 12 medical debriefing (1969), Apollo 17 (1972, cislunar space), and four Mercury-program excerpts from 1961–1963. These are the first crewed-spaceflight UAP audio records released through PURSUE.
Why This Release Is Different
Release 01 (May 8) was heavily historical. Release 02 pushes into the present: 2024 and 2025 files, active combat-theatre footage, and — critically — the Department of Energy’s first contributions. The progression from archival to contemporary, and the addition of the nuclear-weapons agencies, suggests the disclosure is widening in scope rather than winding down. With a third release already confirmed, the pattern to watch is which agency joins next.
UAP Oracle is independently cataloguing every PURSUE release. The official files are hosted at WAR.GOV/UFO. Related investigations: The 13 Missing Scientists, Evidence Vault, Case Files.